[The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Agony Column CHAPTER III 16/21
I'll attend to it--" There was a knock at the door.
Bray called "Come!" and a slender boy, frail but with a military bearing, entered. "Hello, Walters!" he said, smiling.
"What's up? I-" He stopped suddenly as his eyes fell upon the divan where Fraser-Freer lay.
In an instant he was at the dead man's side. "Stephen!" he cried in anguish. "Who are you ?" demanded the inspector--rather rudely, I thought. "It's the captain's brother, sir," put in Walters.
"Lieutenant Norman Fraser-Freer, of the Royal Fusiliers." There fell a silence. "A great calamity, sir--" began Walters to the boy. I have rarely seen any one so overcome as young Fraser-Freer.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|